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Better understanding of Earth's thermosphere will help researchers protect satellites and astronauts.
NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) launched yesterday, and researchers hope it ... Read This Article...

January 3, 2018
— NASA is marking its 60th anniversary year with a new commemorative logo.
The aviation and space agency revealed the design on its website on Wednesday (Jan. 3).
NASA revealed the log... Read This Article...

A new year is bringing a new astronaut-themed attraction to NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
The all-new Astronaut Training Experience (ATX), opening in full in February, offers the pu... Read This Article...

IT'S DESIGNED TO SEARCH FOR LIFE ON JUPITER'S ICY MOON
While many of NASA's current missions are investigating Mars or various asteroids, a mission launching in the 2020s will land somewhere no human-made ma... Read This Article...

Extraterrestrial life has been theorized to exist for centuries. From planets and moons within our own solar system, to planets orbiting in other star systems spread across the galaxy, the thought of alien life... Read This Article...

NASA has signed a new agreement to work with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on space exploration. The agency has agreed to share everything from scientific data to telescopes and (potentially) spacecraft with t... Read This Article...

CAPE CANAVERAL — Peering down at the Earth’s atmosphere from a research window aboard the International Space Station, a new science instrument launching Tuesday will compose unprecedented characterizations... Read This Article...

TORONTO -- When humans set out to colonize other planets, they're going to need resources to build their settlements.
That's the pitch Chris Lewicki, the president and CEO of a U.S. asteroid mining company, de... Read This Article...

The Gulf of Mexico, rich in oil deposits, is no stranger to offshore drilling. But for the first time ever, an expedition of scientists is set venture off the Yucatán coast to drill for core samples from the Ch... Read This Article...

Russia's new plan for protecting Earth from potential asteroid strikes has some chilling aspects. Not only would it violate a 49-year-old international treaty, but it involves nuking potentially-hazardous aster... Read This Article...

WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab, a New Zealand company developing a small launch vehicle, announced a contract Feb. 14 with Spire to launch a number of that company’s small satellites through next year.
Under the co... Read This Article...

WASHINGTON — A Colorado company that said last year it had achieved a technological breakthrough in space transportation has decided to shut down, citing the high costs and risks associated with further devel... Read This Article...

It’s probably been a long time since flying amazed you. Air travel tends to feel like an inconvenience these days—not a miracle of engineering. This is partially due to market forces and security theater. It's ... Read This Article...

During a televised briefing on Thursday (January 14, 2016), NASA announced its new round of commercial contracts extending through 2024. The big news is the addition of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s robotic Dream... Read This Article...

NASA, the perennially underfunded space agency, woke up to a nice surprise this morning: Congress wants to give the agency more money than it asked for. Republican leaders in Congress released a massive budget ... Read This Article...

On Nov. 2, 2000, an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first humans to take up residence on the International Space Station. Since then, the ISS has hosted more than 220 people (including ... Read This Article...

Victor Jerome Glover (born April 30, 1976) is a NASA astronaut of the class of 2013.
Glover is a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy who hails from Pomona, California and Prosper, Texas. He is an F/A-18 pilot a... Read This Article...

Researchers have known for many years that Mars has water frozen at its poles, in its thin atmosphere, and, most recently, in tiny puddles that appear to form at night on the surface.
Mars has liquid water jus... Read This Article...

NASA’s Curiosity robotic rover can be credited for significant scientific discoveries on Mars – like water being able to exist in liquid form on the Red Planet, or the possible existence of microbial life – si... Read This Article...

Since Friday, the world has been grieving the passing of Leonard Nimoy, with many touching tributes to the man best known for his role as Spock on "Star Trek" hitting the Internet over the weekend. Perhaps one ... Read This Article...

NASA aims to continue their space exploration with their Asteroid Redirect Mission.
NASA has not sent astronauts to the moon since 1972. While that remains a historic event, President Barack Obama’s cancellati... Read This Article...

Nasa to release insider code that will let anyone create their own rockets
Ever fancied building your own space rocket but just don’t know where to start? Soon, Nasa could lend a helping hand.
On Thursday Apr... Read This Article...

"Want to build a satellite but don't have a NASA-sized budget?"
That's the tagline of a really cool Kickstarter campaign for PocketQube, a project from Glasgow-based Alba Orbital.
There are about 22 hours lef... Read This Article...

Twitter users are facing the earth-shattering news today that they will have to survive without tweet notifications of impending asteroid strikes.
In a final tweet before suspension, Nasa's Asteroid Watch Twit... Read This Article...

A forthcoming NASA launch to Mars could be in danger of losing its launch window should a shutdown in the United States federal government that began today (Oct. 1) continue for a while. That’s just one of the ... Read This Article...

WASHINGTON—NASA is looking for a rock. It has to be out there somewhere — a small asteroid circling the sun and passing close to Earth. It can’t be too big or too small. Something six to nine metres in diamet... Read This Article...

TORONTO – Heading to an asteroid to mine for minerals may no longer be relegated to science fiction.
NASA has created an asteroid mission concept that would help engineers come up with ideas to get humans to a... Read This Article...

The huge rocket that NASA is building to blast astronauts toward Mars, asteroids and other destinations in deep space has passed a critical design milestone, agency officials announced today (Aug. 1).
Engineer... Read This Article...

The House Science Committee on Thursday voted to bar all spending on plans for a manned mission to an asteroid—rejecting the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's human-space-exploration program through 2025.... Read This Article...

One of six women selected in NASA's 1978 astronaut class, Sally Ride was the first of them to fly. When she rode aboard the space shuttle Challenger as it lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on June 18, 1983, ... Read This Article...

Yvonne Brill, a pioneer in spacecraft propulsion who suspended a promising career to raise three children and then returned to work full time to achieve her greatest engineering successes, died March 27 at a ho... Read This Article...

When the Obama administration’s 2014 federal budget gets released in early April, it might include a curious item: a $100 million request for NASA to conduct a mission to capture an asteroid and bring it back t... Read This Article...

NASA is taking a plan to send an unmanned spacecraft to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit around the Moon seriously. Aviation Week reports that NASA's budget request for fiscal 2014 will include $100 ... Read This Article...

Canadian Chris Hadfield, who will assume command of the International Space Station (ISS) in March, took part in a web chat on Sunday - from space.
He appeared on social news site Reddit, typing on his laptop ... Read This Article...

WASHINGTON -- Astronauts have a down-to-Earth problem that could be even worse on a long trip to Mars: They can't get enough sleep. And over time, the lack of slumber can turn intrepid space travelers into drow... Read This Article...

A report this month from the National Research Council (NRC) has called NASA’s overall trajectory into question. It pointed out the national disagreement over the U.S. space agency’s goals and objectives, a dis... Read This Article...

English: Expedition 27 crew members take a break from training at NASA's Johnson Space Center to pose for a crew portrait. Pictured from the right are Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, commander; Russian co... Read This Article...

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